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NVIDIA Publicly Releases Its OpenCL Linux Drivers

09-28-2009, 04:40 PM

Phoronix: NVIDIA Publicly Releases Its OpenCL Linux Drivers

It's been no secret that NVIDIA has been working on an OpenCL Linux driver for their graphics processors just as AMD has been doing, but up until now their beta drivers were only available to registered NVIDIA developers. Today though -- on the same day as NVIDIA's OpenCL driver launch for Windows -- they have made their OpenCL support publicly available. From the OpenCL download page is all of the NVIDIA OpenCL work, which includes the NVIDIA 190.29 display driver for Linux x86 and Linux x86_64 that implements OpenCL 1.0 in all of its glory...

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Well, remember that AMD released a CPU oriented OpenCL beta a few months ago.

Which happens to be completely broken on windows (functions are decorated with a "_" prefix, meaning you can't even link against the library). The Linux version thankfully works a little better than that, but still...